These artists are making concerts safer with COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times While most of the music industry has moved on, COVID-conscious performers have been working to prevent their shows from being superspreaders.

For @thesicktimes.org, I looked at the state of COVID safety in live music and how artists and event producers can still protect themselves and audiences thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/t...

Maybe it's time to ditch the rhetoric of self-sacrifice and start focusing on creating healing communities, on being more gentle to ourselves and each other, and and on building the world we want to see instead of emulating the sickness of the world we're in.

This narrative is honestly very Protestant. We are all sinners who must repent through self-flagellation. We all deserve to suffer...

2. It is 100% possible to be informed without causing significant harm to yourself. Everyone should be informed. That does NOT require reading in-depth descriptions of abuse in the JE files, or watching every video that crosses your feed of a Palestinian child being brutalised...

1. You say you owe survivors, so what is it that you're giving us by traumatising yourselves? Burnout? Vicarious PTSD? How does this help us exactly?...

I see this hot take a lot in relation to horrors like the genocide in Palestine and the JE files:

"We owe it to survivors to watch and witness everything. The trauma we experience consuming this information is nothing compared to what they've gone through."

As a CSA survivor, here's my response:

What to pack in emergency 'grab and go' bags People should have a pre-packed "grab and go" bag by their exit door, with supplies that can last about 72 hours in case of an emergency.

pretty wild how quickly we've moved from the individualised 'structural' response of "just recycle" to "its your responsibility to have a go bag"

political leadership has UTTERLY failed humanity, and we're seeing it happen in NZ at this very moment

www.rnz.co.nz/life/relatio...

Eyyy it's me!

Palestinians need help sharing their campaigns and engaging with people, in addition to donations.
#freepalestine #mutualaid
Please help Ahmad tinyurl.com/help-ahmad-gaza

Hey! Do you know when it'll be available in New Zealand?

Soft launch coming soon! ✨

The work isn’t done. There will still be more to add and do. But we’re going to keep working, fixing, troubleshooting, and adding new features!

Thanks for being along for the ride ✨
#newrelease #skylightsocial #comingsoon

A 1934 medal called "Nazi in Palestine" The medal is a memento of cooperation between the Nazi Party and the German Zionist Association, in favor of the joint goal of bringing German Jews to Palestine.

- They stoked violence against Iraqi Jews in false flag operations to push them to Israel
- They stole hundreds of Yemeni Jewish babies and gave them to Ashkenazi families
- They HATED Holocaust survivors and called them "sabonim" (cowards)
- The Haavara Agreement
- Just this.

A lot of people say Zi*nism is antisemitic, but most don't seem to realise HOW correct they are.

- Zi*nists made alliances with antisemites
- They hated working-class Jews who embraced Yiddish
- They sold out Hungarian Jews to Eichmann for the d!ath camps...

Undocumented people, people of color (esp hispanic folks), & queer (esp trans, nonbinary, & bisexual) people are most at risk for severe outcomes from SARS2 infection.

It does not have to be like this, but you must take action to ensure that it isn’t. Take the YOU out of eugenics, mask up.

Wearing a mask is one of the easiest ways to ensure you are in solidarity with those most impacted by our authoritarian present. Taking action to prevent the spread of a deadly&disabling neuroinvasive vascular virus—among other airborne pathogens—as our institutions crumble is an antifascist choice.

Both Te Pāti Māori and the Greens have committed to removing the FBI office if in power

Has anyone heard from Labour yet?

a poorly drawn cat licking its raised hind leg. the leg is exaggeratedly large, with an oversized paw featuring huge toe beans

a photo of a ginger and white cat sitting on a sidewalk under a sunny blue sky. the cat is mid-grooming, licking its leg while its paw is stretched toward the camera, making the paw look huge

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Africa: Long Covid is Like 'Experiencing Malaria Constantly' - How Sufferers Struggle to Access Basic Care Guest Column - Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Kizito Zua, a farmer living in Arua, a city in northern Uganda, had earned his way selling his produce at the local market.

Africa: Long COVID is like 'experiencing malaria constantly' allafrica.com/stories/2025...

What other people's deaths are written off because of "pre-existing conditions?"

When you see Zionists insisting that starving Gazan children have "pre-existing conditions," ask yourself where that rhetoric comes from. Where have we heard that before?

"Did he die OF starvation or WITH starvation?" - NYT

The eugenics newsletter that is the NYT is talented in always bringing back that the suffering and death of disabled people is not as much of a concern — nor worth stopping — as for those who are “able-bodied” (can be exploited in the workforce).

Disability justice as in free Palestine

If you are involved in disability justice, children's autonomy is deeply interwoven with the tenets of the movement. I highly encourage people to shift their lens in how they think about children's rights and advocacy!

america treats its kids like temporary slaves

you can deny your child medical treatment, you can deny your child literacy, you can hit them, you can force them to work, marry them off when they're 11 years old, etc.

This is one example of how disability justice is relevant everywhere. Genocidaires always end up hurting sick and disabled people really early on. This war crime isn't less bad because you've decided disabled lives have less value.

I guess that's how long Americans take 😭

Are FSU taking over .nz domains? What's the connection with InternetNZ?

I'm glad to hear you get to see your mum! People are slow to get here. It took my cousins almost 5 years to come visit, and it was for my parents' re-wedding ceremony.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't! Yeah I have many old friends there but can't imagine visiting at this point. I'm grateful that my parents came with me here

My sentiments exactly. I've never been more incentivised to revoke my US citizenship. Sadly, that process costs like $3,000